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NetBSD 9.5 has been released as the final version of this aging stable branch

The NetBSD Project has announced the release of NetBSD 9.5, the fifth and final installment from the NetBSD 9 stable branch. Unveiled on August 31, 2026, the update bundles a curated set of securit...

The Plague of Justinian

Long, long ago I made a brief mention of the Plague of Justinian, and I've mad many posts dealing with the Bubonic Plague, the Black Death, Yersinia pestis. Researchers looking at ancient DNA from ...

2026W35

You should never be angry at work — The line that got me was “you are not Linus Torvalds or Bryan Cantrill”, because the famous angry engineers can afford anger only since they already control the ...

Postgres in Prod, H2 zum Testen

Eine unterschiedliches Datenbanksystem für integration tests und für das Produktivsystem? Kann ich nicht empfehlen.

Shuffle-shard everything

I’ve administered a lot of system design interviews over my career, and I’ve never had anyone use shuffle-sharding.I think this is a real shame, because shuffle-sharding is one of the vanishingly f...

Semaphore

Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026

Yesterday, Isar Aerospace secured its place in the history books when the upper stage of their Spectrum rocket put a payload of CubeSats into low Earth orbit (LEO). Not only …read more

Refunder Blunder, Part 83

Read Refunder Blunder, Part 83 Me: "Can I see the receipt?" Customer: "I lost it, but you sell this!" Me: "Yes, we do, but it isn't exclusive to our store. Without a receipt, I have no evidence of ...

Weekly Robotics #375

Today in Weekly Robotics: A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself, a winning SLAM implementation, balancing a pole with propellers, GPT-6 for robotic manipulation, and more!

phpBB 1.4.4 in Docker

The final release of the 2001 forum software, running on PHP5 + Apache + mySQL 4 in a modern Docker container. Also included are some screenshots.

PSA on RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot

I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and Brisk News respectively. Bot sites are built by Profullstack, Inc. I discovered...

Kept is an open-source self-hosted alternative to Google Keep notes

It looks and feels like Google Keep notes, but is private and tracker-free. It has some extra features too, such as location notifications, CalDAV integrations, collaborative editing, file attachme...

RSS Amplifier Re-Publishes 19 Full NLJ Articles Without Permission

A PSA about a new scraping service for AI crawlers that syndicated (charitably) or re-published (less charitably) 19 New Leaf Journal articles without permission, before I identified the issue.

Daily News Stuff 6 September 2026

Ambiguous Index Edition Top Story Word of caution: If you ever rewrite your own blogging platform and use your personal website as a scratch monkey, remember to unmount it before trying to post you...

Shinto shrine gate parfaits that tell your fortune now being served in Tokyo

At the base of the Skytree there’s a dessert rooted in enmusubi traditions. I think we can all agree that at any moment when you’re eating ice cream, you’re enjoying one of life’s great blessings. ...

Microsoft is adding monthly caps to Xbox Cloud Gaming of up to 15 hours per month

Microsoft is introducing monthly limits for Xbox Cloud Gaming starting in November 2026, replacing the unlimited access currently included with Game Pass. Ultimate subscribers will now get 15 hours...

Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers

This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.

Book Swap: A Night in the Lonesome October

I did a Book Swap with some friends. I got “A Night in the Lonesome October” by Roger Zelazny.

Emperor Belisarius

For the sake of ending the Byzantine invasion of Italy to conquer the Ostrogoths and unify the old Western Roman Empire with the Eastern Byzantine Empire, King Vitiges of the Ostrogoths agreed to t...

Alienation of Affections as Complicity

In the discussion of the Kyrsten Sinema alienation of affections case, several commenters took roughly the following view: Spouses have… The post Alienation of Affections as Complicity appeared fir...